Irish whiskey powerhouse Bushmills has provided a 10-year-old age-stated single malt for many years, however one way or the other, we’re simply now getting round to reviewing it. A snazzy new bundle refresh lately helped convey this oversight to our consideration, so with out additional ado.
That is the youngest and easiest of the Bushmills core vary, showcasing a cask recipe from which all subsequently older expressions start life earlier than receiving additional years of getting old and a novel ending (Marsala for the 12-year, Port for the 16-year, and Madeira for the 21-year). Like the opposite core single malts, this one has been triple distilled from 100% malted barley and aged in a mixture of sherry casks and bourbon-seasoned casks. It’s billed because the “gateway” to the Bushmills vary and the “good summertime whiskey.” Let’s see if we agree.
The aroma is greater than you normally get with a gateway Irish whiskey. It’s impressively wealthy and layered with balanced notes of honeyed malts, heat ginger snap cookies, and recent, delicate spices — cardamom and clove initially, then star anise. Because it opens, a silky fruit dimension presents up apple skins and dried orange peel. The palate is mild bodied and slightly extra pedestrian on the flavour entrance with early notes of barley sugar and vanilla shortbread that don’t evolve a lot throughout the sip past a touch of lemon oil and white pepper. The end is on the shorter aspect however nonetheless energetic with notes of nougatine and honey candies. As entry degree Irish single malts go, this ranks up there with the most effective of them. {The summertime} suggestion appears apt, though greatest to maintain this one off the rocks and in a refreshing cocktail as an alternative.
80 proof.
B+ / $50
Bushmills Single Malt Irish Whiskey 10 Years Previous
$50
